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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6194051" data-attributes="member: 4937">Jedi is non-oriental influence?&nbsp;&nbsp; You do realize that the bearded one is Buddhist, right?&nbsp;&nbsp; And that he claims the whole story was inpired by watching Kirosawa movies?So, 'mystic' as in 'divine' rather than 'arcane'?Ok, so more of a cross between a warrior and a wizard then.&nbsp;&nbsp; Which is it?&nbsp;&nbsp; Warrior priest or warrior mage?Ok, yeah, I believe that.&nbsp; But what I don't understand is why you believe it's like a warrior priest when you also believe it's nothing like a warrior priest.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ok, so it's more of a rogue, warrior, priest, mage... you know I'm beginning to get the idea it's a bit of a Marty Sue.&nbsp; That's going to be a problem, because if it is any good it will be able to outshine everything and continually pull spotlight, and if it isn't any good, then it probably isn't going to make the people that like it happy because it's not monkish enough with its cool combination rogue, warrior, priest, wizard powers.&nbsp;&nbsp; You know, kinda like when you have Jedi in an RPG and its really hard to make them balanced with the non-Jedi because part of the whole point is that the Jedi aren't balanced with the non-Jedi...A rose is a rose is a rose....&nbsp; The problem here is that while mysticism isn't magic, if you can use mysticism to effect your external world or break the laws of physics then there is some sort of magic involved somewhere.&nbsp;&nbsp; Might be divine; might be arcane, but it's magic.Ok, but how is that different than magic?&nbsp; I mean, it is supernatural it seems to me it ought to be at least a little bit like magic.&nbsp; If it isn't magic, what is it?&nbsp;&nbsp; How is it 'super' and not magical at the same time?&nbsp;&nbsp; If it wasn't magic, wouldn't it be just good old fashioned natural?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6194051, member: 4937"] Jedi is non-oriental influence? You do realize that the bearded one is Buddhist, right? And that he claims the whole story was inpired by watching Kirosawa movies? So, 'mystic' as in 'divine' rather than 'arcane'? Ok, so more of a cross between a warrior and a wizard then. Which is it? Warrior priest or warrior mage? Ok, yeah, I believe that. But what I don't understand is why you believe it's like a warrior priest when you also believe it's nothing like a warrior priest. Ok, so it's more of a rogue, warrior, priest, mage... you know I'm beginning to get the idea it's a bit of a Marty Sue. That's going to be a problem, because if it is any good it will be able to outshine everything and continually pull spotlight, and if it isn't any good, then it probably isn't going to make the people that like it happy because it's not monkish enough with its cool combination rogue, warrior, priest, wizard powers. You know, kinda like when you have Jedi in an RPG and its really hard to make them balanced with the non-Jedi because part of the whole point is that the Jedi aren't balanced with the non-Jedi... A rose is a rose is a rose.... The problem here is that while mysticism isn't magic, if you can use mysticism to effect your external world or break the laws of physics then there is some sort of magic involved somewhere. Might be divine; might be arcane, but it's magic. Ok, but how is that different than magic? I mean, it is supernatural it seems to me it ought to be at least a little bit like magic. If it isn't magic, what is it? How is it 'super' and not magical at the same time? If it wasn't magic, wouldn't it be just good old fashioned natural? [/QUOTE]

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